Mediacom Eyes Analog Cuts

AUTHOR(S)

Spangler, Todd

PUB. DATE

January 2008

SOURCE

Multichannel News;1/28/2008, Vol. 29 Issue 4, p2

SOURCE TYPE

Periodical

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

The article reports on Mediacom Communications' filing of a request with the U.S. Federal Communications Commission for an "emergency, expedited" waiver to the agency's integrated set-top ban for systems in small, rural communities. Mediacom claims that the systems for which it is seeking a waiver serve less than nine percent of its 1.3 million subscribers. The waiver was filed on January 18, 2008.

ACCESSION #

28807113

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